Word: hastening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many Southerners would hasten to condemn such a marking system as unfair. "Missouri has none of the problems of desegregation which shackle us," they would say. "It is a border state. Even in its big cities, like St. Louis, the proportion of white to colored children is still large. How would you like to send your child to a Mississippi school, where the Negro children far outnumber the white...
...enclosed letter was sent to Dean Von Stade in hope that it will hasten action on the Lamont Library problem. As freshmen we would like to thank you for your excellent editorial regarding this problem...
...Stekel and Jung, to put a new psychoanalytic interpretation on the 400-year-old statue. It did not he held, show Moses freshly descended from the Mount and about to chastise the Israelites for dancing about their golden calf. Rather, Freud read it as showing Moses deciding not to hasten after the mob lest he lose the Tablets of the Law This he called "the highest mental achievement . . . struggling successfully against an inward passion for the sake of a cause." Freud was often plagued by doubt about the value of his work, but when he remembered how tolerant...
Sergeant Gallagher admitted that he had ejected a corporal suffering from dysentery out of his hut into 40°-below-zero cold, but he insisted that he did not thereby cause or hasten the death of the man. Gallagher denied that he had ejected a second emaciated man into the snow, as charged by six prosecution witnesses. When Sergeant Lloyd Pate, leader of the camp's anti-Communist "reactionaries," taxed him with the death of one of the men in the snow, "I told him to mind his own goddamn business," said Gallagher...
...bomb exploded, truckloads of soldiers raced to defend the Pink House from an advancing skirmish line of rebel marines. A government radio station shrilly called upon members of the Perón-controlled General Labor Confederation (C.G.T.) to seize automobiles, trucks and buses-killing the drivers if necessary-and hasten to the Plaza de Mayo...